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Cultural Anthropology (7TH 08 Edition)
by Gary Ferraro  Publisher Comments CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE is the most applied, contemporary and student-relevant cultural anthropology text on the market today. While providing all the key material traditionally taught in the introductory course, the book emphasizes...
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Predicament of Culture : Twentieth-century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (88 Edition)
by James Clifford Publisher Comments The Predicament of Cultureis a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative...
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Ten Theories of Human Nature (4TH 04 Edition)
by Leslie Forster Stevenson Publisher Comments Over three previous editions, Ten Theories of Human Nature has been a remarkably popular introduction to some of the most influential developments in Western and Eastern thought. This thoroughly revised fourth edition features substantial new chapters on...
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Conformity & Conflict Readings 12TH Edition
by James P Spradley Synopsis An ideal complement to standard anthropology texts or a stand-alone text/reader, "Conformity and Conflict" continues to offer an in-depth look at anthropology as a powerful way to study human behavior and events. The articles included in this reader...
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Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong : Anthropologists Talk Back (05 Edition)
by Catherine Besteman Publisher Comments In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular...
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Anthropology and Modern Life (86 Edition)
by Franz Boas Publisher Comments The great anthropologist's classic treatise on race and culture. Discusses biological and cultural inheritance, the fallacy of racial, cultural or ethnic superiority, the scientific basis for human individuality, and much more. One of the most...
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
by William L Rathje Synopsis It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today's garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is...
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca Publisher Comments After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become...
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Children and Politics of Culture (95 Edition)
by Sharon Stephens Publisher Comments The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children, and from a proliferation of books in recent...
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The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective
by Ellen Gruenbaum Publisher Comments To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut. Yet two million girls experience this each year. Most Westerners...
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Medicine Women Curanderas & Women Doctors
by Bobette Perrone Publisher Comments The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural heaing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women...
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The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
by Robert Darnton Publisher Comments When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in...
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The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea
by Annette B Weiner Publisher Comments This re-examination of the Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea, the people described in Malinowski's classic ethnographic work of the early 20th century, provides a balanced view of the society from a male and female perspective, including coverage of new...
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Tales of the Field on Writing Ethnography
by John Van Maanen Publisher Comments Once upon a time ethnographers returning from the field simply sat down, shuffled their note cards, and wrote up their descriptions of the exotic and quaint customs they had observed. Today scholars in all disciplines are realizing how their research is...
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Life in a Medieval Village
by Frances Gies Publisher Comments This account of medieval villages emphasizes the daily life of peasants-their food, housing and family life; the threatening tensions between them and the lord of the manor; and the place of the Church in their lives....
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Stigma : Notes on the Management of a Spoiled Identity (63 Edition)
by Erving Goffman Publisher Comments Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically deformed people, ex-mental...
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Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands
by Douglas L Oliver Synopsis This abridgment of Oliver's Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands is intended for college-level courses on precontact anthropology, history, economy, and politics of the Pacific, excluding Australia....
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments “ A charming and incisive close-up of the most important part of the Japanese miracle- the making of a Japanese.”...
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Culture, Media, and Identities #02: Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
by Stuart Hall Synopsis This text outlines how visual images, language and discourse work as "systems of representation". It analyzes questions of meaning, truth, knowledge and power in representation, and the relations between representation, pleasure and fantasy....
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Culture : the Anthropologist's Account (99 Edition)
by Adam Kuper Publisher Comments Suddenly culture seems to explain everything, from civil wars to financial crises and divorce rates. But when we speak of culture, what, precisely, do we mean? Adam Kuper pursues the concept of culture from the early twentieth century debates to its...
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